Comments on: the useless art object http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/ I have lived in lots of cool places, so I may say something interesting. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:58:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Mark http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/#comment-3062 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:17:12 +0000 http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/#comment-3062 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869-1948 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1869-1948

]]> by: Christopher http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/#comment-4 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/#comment-4 Wow. Yeah, I've never approached art-making like that. I'm pretty much stuck in my anticipation of other people's reception. Probably why I am never quite certain that I am an artist. Although I am curious how Cattelan can claim his public art is only for himself, I am definitely inspired by this idea of art-making as experience. Craft and process as experience I understand, but approaching the art with the goal that the creation of it be the experiencial end-goal -- not *thats* revolutionary for me. I'll have to lodge that in my noggin for a while. Wow. Yeah, I’ve never approached art-making like that. I’m pretty much stuck in my anticipation of other people’s reception. Probably why I am never quite certain that I am an artist. Although I am curious how Cattelan can claim his public art is only for himself, I am definitely inspired by this idea of art-making as experience. Craft and process as experience I understand, but approaching the art with the goal that the creation of it be the experiencial end-goal — not *thats* revolutionary for me.

I’ll have to lodge that in my noggin for a while.

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/#comment-3 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:11:00 +0000 http://www.christopher-robbins.com/wordpress/2006/04/05/the-useless-art-object/#comment-3 in your list of why you love art, it seems like you take a very 'outside of it' perspective. maurizio cattelan like many many other artists, says that he only makes work for himself. art can be therapy and it can take you to a place experientially that you haven't been before in your own consciousness. not as an experience in a gallery but as the maker. if you can make things that make you feel outside of your personality or who you are as a person, or even question if you actually are a person. that's good. or at least scary. p in your list of why you love art, it seems like you take a very ‘outside of it’ perspective.

maurizio cattelan like many many other artists, says that he only makes work for himself. art can be therapy and it can take you to a place experientially that you haven’t been before in your own consciousness. not as an experience in a gallery but as the maker. if you can make things that make you feel outside of your personality or who you are as a person, or even question if you actually are a person. that’s good. or at least scary.

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